#ParkLight this year
saw an even wider selection of the weird and the wonderful. Thank you
to all contributors, it was a fantastic display of wit, wisdom, technical
capability and commitment to the cause.

Thank you to our collaborators
(Mode, Ledlinear, Xicato, eldoLED and Holders Components) too for helping
to fill the boxes with useful kit and inspiration.

It was an amusing,
inspiring and in some cases, slightly alarming insight into the mind of
a lighting designer. The standard was high and the range wide. It was
impossible to do justice on the night to all the effort that had gone
in, so here is a roundup of the incredible creations to browse at your
leisure.

#1 Alice's Nonsense
- Alessandra Bertolini, Sutton Vane Associates

Winner in "Wittiest"
category

Beautifully executed,
this piece works on many levels. Just how did she manage to make the tea
look brown?

#2 Colourmotion -
Farhad Rahim, Chapman BDSP

Winner in "Most
Technically Refined" category

3rd place in "People's
Choice" category

Crisply made and very
well considered, this submission got better the more you played with it.
Simple rolling colour changes transformed carefully compiled images as
it ran through the spectrum. Fascinating and enchanting; anyone who stopped
stayed for 5 minutes.

#3 Cyber Fruit - Alexia
Gkika, Elektra

Enter the Garden of
Eden. Reach for a juicy red apple. NO! Don't! A PIR spots you and highlights
it a startling red. Just imagine if Adam and Eve had had LEDs; things
might be very different.

#4 Gotham City - Gavin,
Mike Stoane Lighting

Made by a 6 year old
with adult supervision or an adult with a 6 year old supervision? We're
not quite sure.

#5 Lack - Douglas,
Mike Stoane Lighting

Clean, simple, solid;
old school MSL by its newest arrival. We think Douglas is a keeper.

#6 Lucifer's Gantry
- Graeme, Mike Stoane Lighting

RGB colour mixer without
the need of electrickery. Imagine the environmental benefits if this catches
on.

#7 Somewhere over
the Rainbow - Rolf Knudsen, Studio Roso

We didn't look inside
the box so concluded Rolf did this with magic. Chris spent all night poking
holes in the wall looking for gold, to no avail. There is a suggestion
for next year, Rolf.

#8 Eat Jelly, Rave,
Repeat - Graham Rollins, LDI

Grollins left this
in the kitchen for 5 minutes unsupervised and look what happens! Genius,
mad genius.

#9 Saturn's Ring -
Graham and Ingo, GNI Projects

If you could still
see it, you weren't really there. Seriously, all retinal damage aside,
all BS codes and HSE requirements were rigorously adhered to (apart from
when it caused the restaurant to be evacuated).

Unfortunately died
in transit from MSL HQ (the device, not Marty. He's fine).

#12 Light Spike -
Mike Harrison, White Wing

Very efficient and
effective light pipe diffuser. Innovative use of tech from another industry.
Let's make a note of that. Now, where did my laptop go ?

#13 Slow Burn - Mike
Harrison, White Wing

Sublime use of cool
LEDs. The dancing blue flame, one of the safest exhibits ironically (not
so next year I am assured).

#14 Texture Lights
- Mike Harrison, White Wing

Not many people possess
the skill and patience to construct a micro array of individually addressable
LEDs that mimic a delicate movement whilst not moving at all. We suspect
Mike also built a shrink ray-gun prior to this.

#15 Arc Reactor -
Sabby, Penny, Josh, Henry, LAPD

Runner up"People's
Choice" category

Selfishly LAPD left
Los Angeles descending into riots while they borrowed Tony Stark's reactor
for the night and brought it to Hackney.
Flawless. It even powered up in 3 stages!

#16A Vintage Camera
- Iain Ruxton, Speirs + Major

Winner in "Most
Dangerous" category

Twisted. This reverse
camera projects light. In fact, so damn effective it was; that there is
a Xicato shaped scar on the ceiling still. Similarly there is a camera
shaped scar on anyone foolish enough to touch it!

#16B Reverse Projector
- Benz Roos, Speirs + Major

There's nothing Mickey
Mouse about this creation. Next year we are told Benz and Iain will team
up together. The mind boggles.

#17 Le Scoot - Jono
Kenyon, Studio ZNA

Looks like someone
took this scooter on a joy ride before burning it out. By pure chance
the flames seem to be projecting the culprit's name.

#18 Rise and Shine
- Joe Vose, Light Brueau

Winner in "People's
Choice" category

A fantastically slick
modern interpretation of a salt water rheostat. Fully working and considerately
hooked up to a 1-10V line, not the traditional 240V! It even brews the
coffee as it gets warm.

#19 Interactive Hipster
- Alex and Mircea, Light Perceptions

Speaking of coffee,
just what has Bruce been putting in his staff room? If only every project
behaved as well and dimmed as smoothly on the first attempt as this chap
did.

#20 Eggcellent - Inessa
Demidova, GIA Equation

It's true what they
say: "You can't make a beautiful light fitting without breaking a
few eggs".

#21 Jas & Jo LED
- Tommaso and Ingo, DPA Lighting

A diamond is a girls'
best friend, until the battery runs out.

#22 Fossil Foil -
Alvin, Fai, Javi, Alicia, Seam Design

This, "here they
are, where did they go?" curiosity got better the more you played
with it. We don't know why, it just did. Oh, and the label was hilarious
too!

#23 Turn Me On - Gavrill
Papadiotis, LDI

Shuji Nakamura invented
the blue LED and from then Papadiotis' box was open.